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To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Feb 27 2025 04:38 pm
Hey Michiel!
> IBMPC is NOT equivalent to CP437. It can just as well mean CP850.
> Or CP1252. THAT is what FTS-5003 says.
More reasons to get rid of FTS-5003 given that CP1252 isn't an IBM codepage. Any search I have done regarding IBMPC has yeilded nothing but pure speculation and zero as far as any credible source might have to say about it. If you know better I'd appreciate hearing about it if for no other reason than to shed light on what appears to be a hoax.
> LATIN-1
Another hoax? The only listings I can find for the above alias at IANA are ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.0-Latin-1 and ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1, neither of which list LATIN-1 as an alias. As for ISO-8859-1, LATIN1 is the proper alias, and not LATIN-1. I did run across an email from some gov't email address that claims he has it on good source that ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1 uses CP1252 for it's character map which is not the same as ISO-8859-1.
The same holds true for many other LATIN-* aliases whcih only serves to add fuel to the idea that FTS-5003 is pure garbage.
Life is good,
Maurice
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